Who is a Friend?

One should go invited to a friend in good fortune, and uninvited in misfortune.
-- Swedish Proverb

In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.
-- John Churton Collins 

Microwaving Water!

A 26-year old man decided to have a cup of coffee. He took a cup of water and put it in the microwave to heat it up (something that he had done numerous times before ). I am not sure how long he set the timer for, but he wanted to bring the water to a boil. When the timer shut the oven off, he removed the cup from the oven. As he looked into the cup, he noted that the! water was not boiling, but suddenly the water in the cup 'blew up' into his face. The cup remained intact until he threw it out of his hand, but all the water had flown out into his face due to the build up of energy. His whole face is blistered and he has 1st and 2nd degree burns to his face which may leave scarring.

He also may have lost partial sight in his left eye. While at the hospital, the doctor who was attending to him stated that this is a fairly common occurrence and water (alone) should never be heated in a microwave oven. If water is heated in this manner, something should be placed in the cup to diffuse the energy such as a wooden stir stick, tea bag, etc.., (nothing metal).

Grasshoppers Vs Ants

Dear Chellam
You or whoever the author of this story got their facts mixed up.
Please know that only Medha Padkar and Arundati Roy speak for ants and
fight against the grasshoppers.
Many of us dont do any social service. That is still okay. But when we
easily throw mud on the few who do genuine work, it is not tolerable!
Regards
Rams.

Tamil nadu Elections

Elections Partners:

DMK , PMK, CONG, VCK AND VIJAYA KANTH ?

OR

AIADMK , CPI, CPM , MDMK ?

Am i right or wrong ?

Pl focus on the detailing done in the story...extremely fantastic...pl do READ.....

An Old Story:The Ant works hard in the withering heat all summer building its house andlaying up supplies for the winter.The Grasshopper thinks the Ant is a fool and laughs & dances & plays thesummer away.Come winter, the Ant is warm and well fed. The Grasshopper has no food orshelter so he dies out in the cold."""""""""""Indian Version:The Ant works hard in the withering heat all summer building its house andlaying up supplies for the winter.The Grasshopper thinks the Ant's a fool and laughs & dances & plays thesummer away.Come winter, the shivering Grasshopper calls a press conference anddemands to know why the Ant should be allowed to be warm and well fedwhile others are cold and starving. NDTV, BBC, CNN show up to provide pictures of the shivering Grasshoppernext to a video of the Ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.The World is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be that this poorGrasshopper is allowed to suffer so?Arundhati Roy stages a demonstration in front of the Ant's house.Medha Patkar goes on a fast along with other Grasshoppers demanding thatGrasshoppers be relocated to warmer climates during winter . Mayawati states this as `injustice' done on Minorities. Immediately Amarsingh from SP has visited the place & giving assurance to Grasshoppers that they will be 100 % with him & their support is always with him, same letter support(Assurance) has been shown by Amarsing in front of all Electronics Media in press conference & special coverage is shown on all SAHARA channel as a braking news... Amnesty International and Koffi Annan criticize the Indian Government fornot upholding the fundamental rights of the Grasshopper.The Internet is flooded with online petitions seeking support to theGrasshopper (many promising Heaven and Everlasting Peace for promptsupport as against the wrath of God for non-compliance) . All Leading Cell phone Service Provider Company is asking to send the SMS to support to Grasshopper as like write "SUPPORT" Y/N Y= Yes N=No & send to 58585 cost of the SMS is only Rs.5/- . Where Reliance Charging for only Rs. 3/- & for Repeat sender Only Rs.2/- Opposition MPs stage a walkout. Left parties call for ' Bengal Bandh' inWest Bengal and Kerala demanding a Judicial Enquiry. BJP & VHP along with Bajrang Dal,Shivsena & allied Hinduism Supported Party called MUK MRCHA/RASTA ROKO/RAIL ROKO Andolan in all leading cities of India which resulted 40 killed & more than 200 person (figure as per Govt Record It may be less than actual) are injured where 2 days of regular life & mores than of 10000 core commercial transaction is affected. Pressure from US/UK & other Foreigner country on Indian Government to give justice to Grasshopper. CPM in Kerala immediately passes a law preventing Ants from working hardin the heat so as to bring about equality of poverty among Ants andGrasshoppers.Lalu Prasad allocates one free coach to Grasshoppers on all Indian RailwayTrains, aptly named as the 'Grasshopper Rath'.Finally, the Judicial Committee drafts the ' Prevention of TerrorismAgainst Grasshoppers Act' [POTAGA], with effect from the beginning of thewinter.Arjun Singh makes 'Special Reservation ' for Grasshoppers in EducationalInstitutions & in Government Services. The Ant is fined for failing to comply with POTAGA and having nothing leftto pay his retroactive taxes,it's home is confiscated by the Governmentand handed over to the Grasshopper in a ceremony covered by NDTV.Arundhati Roy calls it ' A Triumph of Justice'. Lalu calls it 'Socialistic Justice '. CPM calls it the ' Revolutionary Resurgence of the Downtrodden ' Koffi Annan invites the Grasshopper to address the UN General Assembly. Many years later... The Ant has since migrated to the US and set up a multi-billion dollar company in Silicon Valley, ...ANDAs a result of loosing lot of hard working Ants and feeding thegrasshoppers, . . . . . . . . . . India is still a developing country!!!

Think twice

A new vacuum cleaner salesman knocked on the door on the first house of the street. A tall lady answered the door. Before she could speak, the enthusiastic salesman barged into the living room and opened a big black plastic bag and poured all the cow droppings onto the carpet. "Madam, if I could not clean this up with the use of this new powerful Vacuum cleaner, I will EAT all this dung!" exclaimed the eager salesman . "Do you need chilly sauce or ketchup with that" asked the lady. The bewildered salesman asked, "Why, madam?" "There's no electricity in the house..." said the lady MORAL: Gather all resources before working on any project and committing to the client...!!!

AR Rahman

A R Rahman with his Oscars


Check out an elated A R Rahman as he poses with his Oscar statuettes at the 81st Academy Awards in Los Angeles . Our great A.R. Rahman won two academy awards …Also in the stage A.R.Rahman said “ Yella pugazhum irraivanukkay” in Tamil


A R Rahman giving his thanksgiving speech after winning his 2 Oscars.


Rahman performing the award winning song Jai Ho at the 81st Academy Awards in Los Angeles .



Rahman performing the award winning song Jai Ho at the 81st Academy Awards in Los Angeles .


A R Rahman holding the Oscar statuettes in his hands.

Destiny

His name was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish farmer. One day, while trying to make a living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming from a nearby bog. He dropped his tools and ran to the bog.

There, mired to his waist in black muck, was a terrified boy, screaming and struggling to free himself. Farmer Fleming saved the lad from what could have been a slow and terrifying death.

The next day, a fancy carriage pulled up to the Scotsman's sparse surroundings. An elegantly dressed nobleman stepped out and introduced himself as the father of the boy Farmer Fleming had saved.

'I want to repay you,' said the nobleman. 'You saved my son's life.'

'No, I can't accept payment for what I did,' the Scottish farmer replied waving off the offer. At that moment, the farmer's own son came to the door of the family hovel.

'Is that your son?' the nobleman asked. 'Yes,' the farmer replied proudly.

'I'll make you a deal. Let me provide him with the level of education my own son will enjoy If the lad is anything like his father, he'll no doubt grow to be a man we both will be proud of.' And that he did.

Farmer Fleming's son attended the very best schools and in time, graduated from St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in London, and went on to become known throughout the world as the noted Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of Penicillin.

Years afterward, the same nobleman's son who was saved from the bog was stricken with pneumonia.

What saved his life this time? Penicillin.

The name of the nobleman? Lord Randolph Churchill ..

His son's name?
Sir Winston Churchill.

Someone once said:
What goes around comes around.

Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
Sing like nobody's listening.
Live like it's Heaven on Earth.

hi chellam please refer difference between Coal & lignite

Coal is a readily combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock. The harder forms, such as anthracite coal, can be regarded as metamorphic rock because of later exposure to elevated temperature and pressure. Coal, a fossil fuel, is the largest source of energy for the generation of electricity worldwide, as well as one of the largest worldwide source of carbon dioxide emissions. Gross carbon dioxide emissions from coal usage are slightly more than those from petroleum and about double the amount from natural gas.Coal is extracted from the ground by mining, either underground or in open pits.



Lignite, often referred to as brown coal, or Rosebud coal by Northern Pacific Railroad, is a soft brown fuel with characteristics that put it somewhere between coal and peat. It is considered the lowest rank of coal; it is primarily mined in Russia, the United States, Australia and many European countries, and it is used almost exclusively as a fuel for steam-electric power generation. Lignite is brownish-black in color and has a carbon content of around 60%, Lignite has a high content of volatile matter which makes it easier to convert into gas and liquid petroleum products than higher ranking coals. However, its high moisture content and susceptibility to spontaneous combustion can cause problems in transportation and storage.
Because of its low energy density, brown coal is inefficient to transport and is not traded extensively on the world market compared with higher coal grades.

Hi....

Pls let me know the difference between Coal and Lignite..

Regards

DC

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You can also post through your email program. Read this link:
http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=41452

I have posted this one and the earlier one today through my email only!

Cheers
Rams.

Once more member adding some text!

Thank you Tirupathy for adding a post. Otherwise it is becoming a solo show!

Please friends, post your views, ideas, directly onto the blog. This way
you dont have to send emails to everyone!

Regards
Rams.

Am in Hyderabad

Hi friends,

last Sunday & Monday am in Hyderabad for Jewellery Technical workshop training program conducted by BIS - Govt of India,

at that time our friend Selvakumar and his son Master Sri ram are with me and we enjoyed that sunday by going Birla Temple and world famous hotel Paradise.

and this message for chellam please contact immediatly (your cellphone is switched off)

regards

STR

Help Needed!

Dear Friends ,
I NEED YOUR HELP ON SOS BASIS.
One of our friends C.Rajagopal - srivilliputhur had major operation in his stomach at DUBAI and he returned to India and further undergone Chemotherapy 6 stages at Madurai.
Now he is well and Good condition.
But as per Doctor advise he has to take 4 tablets per day and up to 85 days with equal interval periods of one year.
Tablet name :CAPIBINE OR CAPTABIN 500 Mgs.
I need the tablet from your end and send to my address

D.Chellam,
9/ 4 , kumudham appartment,
Birds Road,
Trichy - 620 001.

When i spoke to Mega in this regard , he has given the commitment of Rs 2500/ every month for his tablets, but Gopal , gently refused and wants tablets only. Since the tablets are in shortage in Madurai , Trichy, coimbatore etc...

So , i request you people to the help in this regard.

Thanks & Regards,

D.Chellam.

Kahlil Gibran on Friendship

Your friend is your needs answered.
He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.
And he is your board and your fireside.
For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace.


When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the "nay" in your own mind, nor do you withhold the "ay."
And when he is silent your heart ceases not to listen to his heart;
For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all expectations are born and shared, with joy that is unacclaimed.
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.
And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught.


And let your best be for your friend.
If he must know the ebb of your tide, let him know its flood also.
For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill?
Seek him always with hours to live.
For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness.
And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.
For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Between Friends

There once was a milkman in the early 1900's named Jack. He and his horse, Pierre, did their job every day with joy in their hearts. Jack wasn't so bright and he couldn't read so when people needed extra milk, they would call to Jack as he left. They would yell, "I'll need some extra milk tomorrow!" which Jack would always reply,"To give your friends some pleasure!"
Jack and Pierre were great friends and did their job for years and years. After a while, Jack didn't have to do much anymore because Pierre knew where and when to stop. The friends continued their job until one sad morning.
Jack came into work one day to find his boss waiting for him.
"Jack," said his boss,"I have some sad news. This morning, Pierre died in his stall."
Tears started to run down Jack's face.
"It's OK Jack," said his boss. "He was an old horse."
"I will never see my friend again," said Jack tearfully.
"Yes you will. He's laying in his stall very peacefully right now. You can see him now if you'd like."
"You do not understand. I will never see Pierre again."
"I understand your sadness. You may have the day off if you'd like."
"No, I have a job to do," and with that Jack walked off. He was given a new horse and carriage and he went off to do his job.
That day, Jack was in an accident. His carriage was hit by an automobile. When his boss heard this, he rushed down to where the accident was. When he got there he asked, "Is Jack OK?"
"No, he died in the crash," said the doctor.
"I don't understand," said the driver of the automobile. "It was like he didn't even see me!"
"That's because he didn't. This man has been blind for 5 years," said the doctor.
"I never knew!" said Jack's boss.
"He didn't tell you?" said the doctor.
Just then, Jack's boss remembered what Jack said about Pierre. "No, but someone else knew. "
"Who?" asked the doctor.
"A friend of Jack's. His name was Pierre. I think that it was just a little secret between friends."

A short and sweet story

This story was sent first by Shanmugavel through email.

A boy and a girl were playing together. The boy had a collection of marbles. The girl had some sweets with her. The boy told the girl that he will give her all his marbles in exchange for her sweets. The girl agreed.
The boy kept the biggest and the most beautiful marble aside and gave the rest to the girl. The girl gave him all her sweets as she had promised. That night, the girl slept peacefully. But the boy couldn't sleep as he kept wondering if the girl had hidden some sweets from him the way he had hidden his best marble.

Moral of the story:
If you don't give your hundred percent in a relationship, you'll always keep doubting if the other person has given his/her hundred percent.. This is applicable for any relationship like love, employer-employee relationship, friendship etc., Give your hundred percent to everything you do and sleep peacefully.